Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] vsock: Add flags field in the vsock address

[Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>]

Hi Andra,

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:32:37PM +0200, Andra Paraschiv wrote:
>vsock enables communication between virtual machines and the host they are
>running on. Nested VMs can be setup to use vsock channels, as the multi
>transport support has been available in the mainline since the v5.5 Linux kernel
>has been released.
>
>Implicitly, if no host->guest vsock transport is loaded, all the vsock packets
>are forwarded to the host. This behavior can be used to setup communication
>channels between sibling VMs that are running on the same host. One example can
>be the vsock channels that can be established within AWS Nitro Enclaves
>(see Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst).
>
>To be able to explicitly mark a connection as being used for a certain use case,
>add a flags field in the vsock address data structure. The value of the flags
>field is taken into consideration when the vsock transport is assigned. This way
>can distinguish between different use cases, such as nested VMs / local
>communication and sibling VMs.
>
>The flags field can be set in the user space application connect logic. On the
>listen path, the field can be set in the kernel space logic.
>

I reviewed all the patches and they are in a good shape!

Maybe the last thing to add is a flags check in the 
vsock_addr_validate(), to avoid that flags that we don't know how to 
handle are specified.
For example if in the future we add new flags that this version of the 
kernel is not able to satisfy, we should return an error to the 
application.

I mean something like this:

     diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/vsock_addr.c b/net/vmw_vsock/vsock_addr.c
     index 909de26cb0e7..73bb1d2fa526 100644
     --- a/net/vmw_vsock/vsock_addr.c
     +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/vsock_addr.c
     @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vsock_addr_init);
      
      int vsock_addr_validate(const struct sockaddr_vm *addr)
      {
     +       unsigned short svm_valid_flags = VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST;
     +
             if (!addr)
                     return -EFAULT;
      
     @@ -31,6 +33,9 @@ int vsock_addr_validate(const struct sockaddr_vm *addr)
             if (addr->svm_zero[0] != 0)
                     return -EINVAL;
      
     +       if (addr->svm_flags & ~svm_valid_flags)
     +               return -EINVAL;
     +
             return 0;
      }
      EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vsock_addr_validate);


Thanks,
Stefano

>Thank you.
>
>Andra
>
>---
>
>Patch Series Changelog
>
>The patch series is built on top of v5.10-rc7.
>
>GitHub repo branch for the latest version of the patch series:
>
>* https://github.com/andraprs/linux/tree/vsock-flag-sibling-comm-v3
>
>v2 -> v3
>
>* Rebase on top of v5.10-rc7.
>* Add "svm_flags" as a new field, not reusing "svm_reserved1".
>* Update comments to mention when the "VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST" flag is set in the
>  connect and listen paths.
>* Update bitwise check logic to not compare result to the flag value.
>* v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201204170235.84387-1-andraprs@amazon.com/
>
>v1 -> v2
>
>* Update the vsock flag naming to "VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST".
>* Use bitwise operators to setup and check the vsock flag.
>* Set the vsock flag on the receive path in the vsock transport assignment
>  logic.
>* Merge the checks for the g2h transport assignment in one "if" block.
>* v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201201152505.19445-1-andraprs@amazon.com/
>
>---
>
>Andra Paraschiv (4):
>  vm_sockets: Add flags field in the vsock address data structure
>  vm_sockets: Add VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST vsock flag
>  af_vsock: Set VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST flag on the receive path
>  af_vsock: Assign the vsock transport considering the vsock address
>    flags
>
> include/uapi/linux/vm_sockets.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c        | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
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